%% Sankaranarayanan K V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
skv> - bash behaves just as you have said --
skv> it passes on changes to the child even if the variable is not
skv> exported specifically in the parent.
ksh behaves this way too.
skv> - sh (the Bourne shell) does NOT pass the changes to the child if the
skv> variable is not exported.
skv> Now, isn't that strange? What does POSIX say?
POSIX agrees with bash and ksh.
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